Design Alaska Wild Arts Walk
All art in the QuickArt silent auction was created by local artists at Creamer's Field in an hour! Bid at the link below:
QuickArt Silent Auction
Item #1 - Sarita Arya
Item #2 - Andrew Brooks
Item #3 - Randall Compton
Item #4 - Tammy Holland
Item #5 - Teresa Knezek
Item #6 - Tehya McLeod
Item #7 - Shayla Sackinger
Item #8 - Iris Sutton
Item #9 - Hazel Sutton
Friends of Creamer’s Field is proud to partner with Design Alaska to host the annual Design Alaska Wild Arts Walk. The event will be taking place on June 23rd from 11:00 a.m. - 4 p.m. Local artists display and sell their work and art is created on site and sold in an online Quick Art auction. Admission is $5.00 per person for 18+, 17 and under are free. Upon admission, each family receives Design Alaska’s gift of a collector’s edition Creamers Field art mug, while supplies last. All proceeds raised benefit community programs offered by Friends of Creamer’s Field.
We are in need of volunteers to help us with this event! If you are interested in volunteering, please fill out this form or you can contact us directly at (907) 978-8457 or by email at director@friendsofcreamersfield.org.
Bud Marschner of Bud's Alaska Photos
A lifetime hobby of photography grew into a business about 10 years ago. Bud produces annual Alaska Wildlife calendars and wildlife photos.
Randall Compton
Randall is known for his brilliant depictions of Alaskan scenery and wildlife, specifically Alaskan birds. Known as an avid falconer, his work depicts many aspects of his passion. Randall makes his home in Fairbanks with his wife, Crystal, and their four children.
Kim Krinke & Betty Dupee of Krink’s Kaleidoscope & Treasurable’s
Betty originally introduced Kim to alcohol ink through a class, thinking she would be unable to control it. Kim fell in love with the medium and the duo decided to team up and combine Betty’s more playful form with Kim’s control freak nature for detail.
Ann Wood O’Brien of Midnight Sun Arts
Ann came to Alaska 50 years ago looking for adventure. She has lived in the bush, fished for a living, and loves being outdoors. With her felting and eco-printing she brings some of what she experiences outdoors to her art.
Amelia Jansen of Screaming Possum
Amelia is a zooarchaeologist and artist originally from Tennessee. When she is not identifying animal bones from archaeological sites, she likes to create small nature scenes with materials she forages from the environment around her, creating small snapshots of natural moments.
Erica Mathews of Lola Bug Creations
Erica’s passion for art began early. As a small child her mother, also an artist, opened her own stained-glass business. Erica began dabbling in different forms of art along the way but always came back to glass. Over the last five years, she has had the opportunity to be a full-time artist creating unique and beautiful works of art that are inspired by nature.
Brianna Reagan of Brianna Reagan Art, Inc.
Based in Fairbanks, Alaska, where I now raise my own family, I have been working as an artist for over 15 years. I primarily use acrylic, gouache, watercolors, and then finish a work with hand drawn details in inks, markers, or color pencils.
Zoe Marshall of The Sync Hole
Eternally inspired by Spruce trees and Northern lighting, I create art in homage to the magic that lies within the everyday. Living in the North feels like constantly walking through different art forms. Always trying to capture that feeling through painting, and other mediums, utilizing evocative color and active lines.
Todd Trygstad of The Toddatorium
A lifelong artist, my life for the past 17 years has led me here. I think it's time to find out what's what. I dumped a nice career in Automotive to pursue a life of leisure in fine art. While leisure has eluded me, the pursuit...
Lisa Rogers - Peter of Tundra Walker Studios
Lisa Rogers-Peter was born and raised in Alaska. She received a BFA in painting and a minor in sculpture at the University of Alaska and maintains the personal importance of being a self-taught artist. Her artwork has been accepted into many juried exhibits and numerous solo shows in Alaska. Her creativity stretches over many subjects, starting with painting, she is also a sculptress in metal, wood, and other mixed mediums. She is currently working on a new series of paintings about abstract landscapes and pure abstraction. In June of 2021, she presented a solo show at the Well Street Gallery, Fairbanks. She also presented a show titled” A Few of my Favorites – Canvas & Metal”, at the Two Street Gallery in downtown Fairbanks for the month of July 2023. The Valdez Museum hosted a retrospective exhibit called “Realism to Abstraction”, from October – December 2023.
April Knox of April Knox Art
April Knox is an oil painter and geologist and lives in Fairbanks, Alaska. Her work is in the representational impressionistic style. Capturing the immediacy of the moment and changing light with confident bold brushstrokes and vibrant color. Currently, her work can be found at aprilknoxart.com, 2 Street Gallery, Roaming Root Cellar, and the Bear Gallery Gift shop in Fairbanks.
The Fairbanks Watercolor Society is a watercolor painting group based in Fairbanks, AK. They have painting demos at their booth as well as information for individuals who would like to start painting. Creamer’s is one of their favorite places to paint in Fairbanks.
Traci Hill of Wild Tundra Sketches
Traci is a self-proclaimed conundrum. A hodge-podge of random puzzle pieces that somehow fit together in a functional and unique way. She is a former Marine, a biologist, and a proud mom of a nine-year-old energetic boy and a pet to four dogs.
Tehya McLeod of Tehya McLeod Art
As a local landscape painter and avid explorer, I am passionate about addressing and documenting current impacts on the landscapes around us. I am interested in the relationship people have with the land around them, and in using art as a tool to educate and inform a broad audience. I have recently been exploring environmental themes, and partnering with UAF scientists to learn and share information about their work. My intention is to continue exploring the relationship between people and places and promote interdisciplinary learning through art-science projects.
Diana Solie - Solie Creations
Diana Solie is a geologist who has enjoyed geologic field work all over the beautiful state of Alaska. When not in the field, she has been a cellist, playing with orchestras wherever she lived. She and her husband welcome time on their sailboat on the East Coast during the cold Alaskan winters. In recent years, Diana has turned her creative talents to oil painting. Her works reflect the beauty of the natural world that has inspired her throughout her life.
Tianna Christopher of Fairy Slipper Creations
Fairy Slipper Creations are hand beaded earrings with an intent to make you feel all the MORE powerful & fabulous. The artist finds inspiration in the natural world that surrounds her. The earrings are an outlet for the creativity & solace that the farm field, hiking trails, winter snow, and late night Alaskan skies provide her with.
Cheyanna Swisher of Discovering Bluebell
Born and raised in Fairbanks, Cheyanna always enjoyed photography and the way a photo photo can express something words cannot. As someone who is rather reserved, it helps Cheyanna communicate. Cheyenna doesn't have fancy equipment or high tech editing skills, but her partner encouraged her to share her photography. So here she is!
Addie Willsrud of AMW.Arts
1998. Alaska-raised hobby naturalist, scientific illustrator & creative nonfiction writer, Addie Willsrud dabbles in a variety of mediums, including inks, wood burning and nordic knitting.
Sarah Douglas-Cameron
My prints are inspired by the wild spaces and creatures of Alaska. I work intuitively- combining experiences, imagination and dream. I try to make art that feels good to look at and conveys joy, mystery, and timelessness. In addition to printmaking, I illustrated GRANITE, a children's book by Susan Butcher.
Teresa Knezek of Knezek.art
Teresa Knezek has lived in Interior Alaska for over 20 years, and has worked with a variety of art mediums and techniques for most of her life. She is currently focused on watercolor and printmaking, inspired by the landscapes and animals of Alaska.
Srita Arya of Team Labh Solutions
Sarita is a local Fairbanks henna artist. Sarita loves to do henna body art and create beautiful pieces of arts and crafts. These include handcrafted jewelry that are based on local Alaskan or other nature based themes.
Iris Sutton of Ice Wedge Art & Farm
Born and raised in Alaska, Iris is continually inspired by its expanse and variety of life. She travels throughout the state to gain ideas – by dog team in the winter and by whatever means necessary in the summer. She has worked in many forms of media and is always open to something new.
Andrew Brooks of Reww Reww Art
Born in Appalachia and moving through the Rockies to the boreal forest, the natural world has been my greatest inspiration. From standing on the peaks of giants to the rush of a river, feeling the connectedness of it all is what drives me.
Shayla Sackinger of Bird Ninja Art
Shayla Sackinger is an artist based in Fairbanks, Alaska. In the age of digital art, Shayla’s main medium is traditional ink and watercolor, but is also capable in a variety of other mediums. In recent years her work has moved towards birds and Alaskan scenery done in watercolor. Her work has been featured in many exhibitions and conventions around Fairbanks as well as in books, articles, and other publications. Shayla is also an Ambassador for Guardians Mental Health, 501c3 nonprofit mental health organization that promotes mental health awareness in the gaming space.
Magnolia Altamirano of Magnolia Flower and Co.
Magnolia Altamirano is a California-born artist, who spent her childhood in Mexico/Utah and uprooted her life to Alaska in 2020 on military orders. Where she enrolled in the Arts program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and is now pursuing her Bachelor in Art, with an emphasis in painting. Altamirano spent more than a decade in the medical field and after that time she felt burned out and returned to art. Altamirano uses painting as a therapeutic channel to express her internal turmoil. Bringing awareness to the heavy emotions that are often unspoken; such as depression, and anxiety, but also love, and strength among other strong emotions. Magnolia portrays her subjects in an unconventional manner through the use of mythological stories and pushes her interpretations into an unexpected perspective. Through the use of hidden meaning, she paints allegories that connect with her viewers in deep and meaningful ways.
Jerry Lipka
Jerry has been enamored by birds and their migration since he first noticed elegant egrets, herons, and raptors thriving in Jamaica Bay in New York City. Almost sixty years later, after retiring, he has had the luxury of time to take up photography.
